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analysis of 30 cases of compliance with health commitments from 1996 to 2006, by
adding an expanded analysis of 35 cases during the same time (Kirton, roudev, and
functions that international institutions perform. It then examines whether its
members comply with their collective commitments. It finally explores why they
comply, asking how leaders can craft and embed innovative compliance catalysts
that induce the sovereign states in the G8 to comply with their collective will. Here
it focusses on whether the G8 leaders, through their use of their own plurilateral
institutions and multilateral organisations such as the wHo, help or harm the
compliance cause.
this analysis shows that the G8 and its leaders have made a desirable difference
in deliberating, setting directions, and deciding upon important actions to enhance
global health. they have performed less well in consistently delivering the health
commitments they have made. Yet at their annual summit G8 leaders themselves
can craft their commitments in ways that contain particular catalysts proven to
improve compliance with them during the following year. when they set a one-year
timetable and ask the wHo to help, more compliance comes. Setting longer multi-
year timetables or looking to their own G8 finance ministers' forum or to multilateral
organisations beyond the wHo does not help. In the latter case it actually harms.
thus G8 governance at the summit, through the most functionally focussed wHo,
and without the other international organisations, is what works for the G8 in
generating health compliance. G8 leaders would be well advised to build on this
logic, by setting more one-year timetables and relying more on the wHo.
The Cadence of G8 Global Health Governance
Since the onset of rapid globalisation in 1996, the G8 has emerged through several
stages as an effective, high-performing centre of global health governance (Kirton and
Mannell 2007; Kirton 2006a, 2005b). It has done so in domestic political management,
deliberation, direction setting, decision making, delivery, and the development of
global governance (see appendix 14-1; Kirton 2005a). In 1996 and 1997, under
first French and then american leadership, the G8 summits started discussing and
deciding on global health issues in a substantial way. In 2000-01, under Japanese
and Italian leadership, the G8 more than doubled its health deliberations and decisions,
delivered these decisions to a very high degree, and mobilised new money to this
end. In 2002-03, under canadian and French leadership, the G8 set new directions
and produced new peaks in its deliberative, directional, and decisional performance
as well as in the development of G8-led global governance in health. In 2005, it took
a step-level jump in the new money it mobilised for global health.
this rapidly rising G8 performance has been led by almost all G8 countries,
especially when each has served as host. of particular note has been France as host
in 1996 and above all in 2003, when it set new highs in the deliberative, direction
setting, delivery, and development of G8 governance domains. these levels were not
